Book Talk with Dr. Akan Malici

Akan Malici is from a Turkish and Albanian family. He grew up in Germany and received his undergraduate education in Literature and Political Science at the University of Tübingen. He came to the United States for graduate school in 2000. At Arizona State University he received his M.A. degree in 2002 and his Ph.D. degree in 2004. He has been teaching at Furman University since 2005. Dr. Malici's scholarly interest is in International Relations. He is the author of When Leaders Learn and When They Don't (SUNY Press, 2008), The Search for a Common European Foreign and Security Policy (Palgrave Press, 2008), and An Introduction to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Routledge, 2025). Akan Malici is also the co-author of U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes (Stanford University Press, 2011) and Role Theory and Role Conflict in U.S.-Iran Relations: Enemies of Our Own Making (Routledge 2016). He is the co-editor of Re-thinking Foreign Policy Analysis (Routledge, 2011) and Political Science Research in Practice (Routledge 2013, 2019).